L eo that Yeniel Bermudez player to integrate the Cuban national team, lives in Alaska. There was interviewed for the Anchorage Daily News , through which we learn what has been their avatars to settle in the United States and earn a living.
Yeniel was one of the Cuban players in March 2008, in Tampa, Florida, drawing an Olympic qualifying match ahead of Beijing, left the team and requested refugee status. What the press is commonly called here in the free world, with the horrible infinitive of "defect." In these two
years Yeniel just played football. It tells the interviewer that he was participating in a tournament with a lower-division team called Charleston Battery in South Carolina, where it has felt like an outsider. Currently has no professional contract. Even found a job, was fired from a previous job when his boss found out you can not write in English, "although it is connected to a school volunteer.
not accompanied him to say much fortune. He tried to play for Chivas USA, where campaigning striker Maykel Galindo, but a tear in the ligaments erased any chance of debuting in the MLS. Previously, had not been integrated into the organization's Los Angeles Galaxy because he still did not have papers.
Now he trains alone in a field school. There is no one with him, no one to pass the ball, only your partner and journalist. He still wears the costume of the national team that was once the captain and now to his younger brother, back in Cuba, has been marginalized. Is waiting for an offer, preferably from the United States, which continues to play mediocre football.
for the former defender Cienfuegos team, they have had two years of loneliness. But no matter how hard life of migrant, Yeniel has endless possibilities to succeed today, quite a lot more of him on the island were denied those opportunities come true one day now depends solely on him, his talent and dedication put to stay ahead way, and not irrational subordination to a government that no longer can boast of holding (thankfully) not even an ideological coherence. Much less can promote and fund a sports movement that yields the results of the past.
In this global disaster that has made the island of Cuba, the only thing that seems worthwhile is to escape by any means, bet on the questions of the future instead of living rooted in the past. That was what made Yeniel and although she has even gone so well, the first step and gave it, which is acquiring for himself an individual freedom that nothing and no one may be limited.
Photo: Bob Hallinan / Anchorage Daily News
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